Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80b92979a4f48f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 09:23:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ecace03fd206b65c002922c0baeea23f SHA-1: 82cf79528ad3414d2b234cf28ed32e667087ff99 SHA-256: 80b92979a4f48f4505f51df7719e63c587a538ea36500c5d91080f4c04cb5f90
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to what appears to be an SEO link farm designed to lure users. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=gana+balachander+song++mp4'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=gana+balachander+song++mp4 In PDF document text
    • http://files.loveforlocals.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303351/dosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3647/0430/files/robot_modeling_and_control_spong_2006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1349/6222/files/mozevubegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5109/8007/files/walogigibalaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5692/2778/files/96436911171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2240/8087/files/canciones_guitarra_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9952/9120/files/37105936303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3154/0391/files/cancer_de_piel_en_nios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3831/7471/files/kapovopujepubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8741/9806/files/98267828729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7361/7568/files/c_value_paradox_short_note.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000041f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x41F3 5748 bytes
SHA-256: b39052b697529cbf48f88d1cc63eb2cb1b0794a80a82a52a0e3d4737c4664159
font_01_sfnt_off00005555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5555 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 3a52139ad3cce0dfbd03b15e21462386e58fc09ade9ae06da2f1304bb372475a